President Trump made a big splash with dozens of executive actions on his first day in office, but now comes the hard part: getting Republicans in Congress in line to usher an ambitious legislative agenda through their slim majorities and clashing factions.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and other GOP congressional leaders met with Trump at the White House on Tuesday to plan out how to do just that. Their sweeping goals include an extension of Trump’s tax cuts, energy policy reforms, border security measures and funding.

Republicans aim to pass Trump’s agenda through a special budget reconciliation process that will bypass the threat of a Democratic filibuster in the Senate and allow Republicans to pass the expansive agenda along party lines — but it will require near-universal GOP agreement, and getting it will be the difficult part.

Heading into the meeting, there were still divisions among Republicans about whether they should try to pack the whole agenda into one bill or break it into two pieces, since reconciliation can only be used a limited number of times in a year.

But House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) signaled after the meeting that leaders had decided on one bill.

“We’re moving forward with one bill,” Scalise said.

Johnson was less direct but said a plan is in motion.

“We’ve got a plan pretty well-formulated now, and I’m not going to tell all of you all the details of it yet,” Johnson said. “But the party is working in unison. The leaders in both chambers are working in a bicameral fashion, and the president is all on board.”

Thune had originally advocated for a two-bill track to try to deliver border wins to........

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